Written By: - Date published: 7:02 pm, July 14th, 2026 - 12 comments
Michael Laws and Paul Henry are planning a return to Parliament. Laws as a potential New Zealand First MP and Henry as an Act MP. Does Parliament really need more shock jocks?
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 14th, 2026 - 57 comments
The latest RNZ Reid Research Poll suggests that the chances of Christopher Luxon needing a new job after the next election are increasing.
Written By: - Date published: 5:57 pm, July 9th, 2026 - 21 comments
Minister of Transport Chris Bishop has now finally admitted that National’s 2023 election promises in transport were “very ambitious, ” and pushed many of them into simply future unfunded ideas, at devastating economic cost.
Written By: - Date published: 1:14 pm, July 9th, 2026 - 7 comments
I was struck by just how out of touch Simeon Brown is with the frustration of residential consumers of electricity. The ever rising prices, the frequent outages, and the stupidity of our electricity market. National’s fast-track doesn’t address any of that, nor their minuscule solar plan. Labour’s plan is a more useful fast-track to transform our real productive economy. Far more so than just exporting profits offshore from mining and data centres
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, July 9th, 2026 - 25 comments
This is a very impressive policy from Labour
Written By: - Date published: 10:11 pm, July 5th, 2026 - 1 comment
On Thursday, Victoria Coleman handed over a petition at Parliament calling for the Disability Support Services Bill to be scrapped — 16,458 signatures got in five weeks while she cares full-time for her seven-year-old son Levi. Campaigning on top of that responsibility tells you whats at stake for thousands.
Written By: - Date published: 9:17 am, July 3rd, 2026 - 115 comments
Denmark produces excellent beer, world class design, unmanageable open sandwiches and an object lesson in the operation of proportional representation. A particular interest in Denmark is triggered by the emergence of the Opportunity Party as a possible threshold party in the NZ system. It may, at a stretch, arrive at 5%, which, as commentators have […]
Written By: - Date published: 7:59 am, June 29th, 2026 - 14 comments
Chris Hipkins’ speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday
Written By: - Date published: 12:27 pm, June 27th, 2026 - 6 comments
This week Tama Potaka announced the Government will backtrack on a proposal that would have allowed for the sale of up to 60% of the country’s conservation land. But Shane Jones then completely undermined the announcement by talking about using Conservation land for mining.
Written By: - Date published: 3:52 pm, June 24th, 2026 - 21 comments
National’s recent Kiwisaver announcement, expected to cost $110 million a year, only pays back some of the savings from its erlier Kiwisaver cuts expected to save $610 million a year, and appears to be signs ofincreasing panic.
Written By: - Date published: 6:11 am, June 22nd, 2026 - 48 comments
“Enough is enough. No more tinkering around the edges. It’s time for the super-rich to pay their damn taxes”
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, June 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
In the United States and in New Zealand the current administrations wish to speed up the finalisation of election results by supressing the right to vote.
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, June 15th, 2026 - 16 comments
It is strange for a party in power finishing its first term to call a media event on a Sunday just so it can attack the opposition. But this is what happened yesterday.
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, June 14th, 2026 - 159 comments
The Opportunity Party which has a suite of progressive policies thinks that it can work with National, even though National’s priorities should be an anathema to it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:19 am, June 12th, 2026 - 12 comments
National, a party of supposed economic geniuses, will spend billions on an LNG terminal that is not needed, billions on roads of National significance whose business cases are appalling, and attack Labour for a policy that is cheap, will help ordinary people, reduce fuel dependancy and greenhouse gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2026 - 44 comments
Labour’s recently announced list contains a number of new impressive candidates and is clear evidence that the party is being rejuvinated.
Written By: - Date published: 2:29 pm, June 7th, 2026 - 20 comments
Surging populist thinking is compounding neo-liberalism’s dislike of the public sector and our democratic institutions.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, June 5th, 2026 - 31 comments
On May 21st, 2026 National’s Chris Bishop did his best to lose the 2026 general election and his Hutt South electorate.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, June 1st, 2026 - 30 comments
The timing of the recent suggestion by Chris Penk that New Zealand should review its nuclear free policy makes you wonder if the Trump Administration has applied pressure to do so.
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
There are still those who pine, from the readership of Jacinda Ardern’s biography, for a state that is perfectly kind, does everything with speed and authority, and brims with patrician wisdom for us all. Her 1.5 terms held many instances in which the state operated on the extremes of control to respond to massive crises.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
How cruel do you have to be to raise rents for some of our poorest citizens during a cost of living crisis?
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 am, May 21st, 2026 - 13 comments
Wellington is being deliberately targeted by National and it is destroying the third largest region of New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, May 19th, 2026 - 73 comments
National today intensified efforts to alienate the entire public service by announcing that a further 9,000 public positions will be culled if, god help us, they are returned to power.
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, May 18th, 2026 - 46 comments
Winston Peters is trying to appeal to the far left by calling for the renationalisation of the Bank of New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 am, May 12th, 2026 - 26 comments
The Government’s plans to retrospectively change the law to stop a case seeking damages for climate damage caused by heavy emitters is a constitutional outrage and shows not only contempt for the rule of law but also contempt for any action taken by a citizen against climate change.
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, May 10th, 2026 - 38 comments
National has engaged in a Dirty Politics style attack on TVNZ reporter Maiki Sherman in an attempt to cower the media in election year.
Written By: - Date published: 7:14 pm, May 9th, 2026 - 55 comments
Does the centre left need Te Pāti Māori to win the election?
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, May 2nd, 2026 - 83 comments
Superannuation is the ultimate Don’t Go There of New Zealand politics. But unless this benefit becomes means tested rather than subsidises rich asset-hoarding old people, it is going to sink every other part of the government.
Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, April 30th, 2026 - 40 comments
Opinion – Jacinda Ardern was a great Prime Minister and her loss was actually ours.
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, April 30th, 2026 - 23 comments
Christopher Luxon has responded to Winston Peters releasing emails suggesting Luxon wanted to support the US invasion of Iran by dressing him down publicly. The Government is clearly in crisis.
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